In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, Elon Musk has a grand (techno)fix for water shortages that includes desalination plants powered by solar with battery storage. But he forgot poor countries can’t afford it.
Tesla has issued a strongly worded letter to its shareholders, slamming the proxy advisory firm recommending investors reject Elon Musk’s compensation plan — which is valued as high as $56 billion.
Titled “What Glass Lewis Got Wrong About Tesla,” the letter claims that the firm “omits key considerations, uses faulty logic, and relies on speculation and hypotheticals,” reports Bloomberg.
Throw in some "unabashed cheerleading" of Musk as a leader, and you have to wonder just how much say the Tesla CEO had in the letter’s wording, says Futurism. Here’s more.
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File this under news that doesn’t surprise us one bit, but a new report from the Wall Street Journal states that Elon Musk has been speaking with Donald Trump “several times a month” on a wide range of political topics, from “voter fraud” to illegal immigration.
Top of Musk’s priorities for this blossoming friendship, says @Gizmodo, is to ensure his businesses benefit if Trump is elected again in November — perhaps fuelled by the former president's recent announcement that he wants to stop EV sales in the U.S. if he wins. Musk is also keen to get Trump back onto X, following his ban in 2021. Here’s more.